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In Africa, the animals that dominate European cave paintings

欧洲壁画由动物主导 但在非洲

are accompanied by humans.

它们还有人类相伴

They appear as stylised, elongated1 figures.

他们以固定风格的 细长的形象出现

Sometimes they're shown while becoming transformed into beasts.

有的时候他们还以野兽化的形象出现

Men with the heads of antelopes2,

长着羚羊头的人

creatures that could never have been observed from life,

这是生活中看不到的生物

but which arose from the trance-struck imagination of the shamans.

而是源自于萨满的迷幻想象

In the rock art of Africa, these hybrids3 were painted.

在非洲的岩画中 画着这些兽人

In Europe, where there were far fewer of them,

在欧洲 兽人形象相比非洲少很多

they went three-dimensional.

但他们变成了三维立体的

In 1939, the fragments of this lion-man,

1939年在德国的石洞中发现了

carved from mammoth4 ivory, were found in a German cave.

这个用猛犸象牙雕刻而成的狮人的碎片

They remained an unsolved puzzle for 30 years

它们成了一个三十年未解之谜

before archaeologists realised that they formed a single figure

直到考古学家发现它们拼在一起是一个人物形象

made between 35,000 and 40,000 years ago.

距今三万五千到四万年

This may be a shaman in the middle of a transformation5.

这可能是一个正在变身的萨满

It may be the very first of the beast gods,

它可能是最早的兽神

around which Pagan religions would build their mythologies6.

异教的神话就是围绕它们创造的


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1 elongated 6a3aeff7c3bf903f4176b42850937718     
v.延长,加长( elongate的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • Modigliani's women have strangely elongated faces. 莫迪里阿尼画中的妇女都长着奇长无比的脸。
  • A piece of rubber can be elongated by streching. 一块橡皮可以拉长。 来自《用法词典》
2 antelopes ca529013a9640792629d32a14a98d705     
羚羊( antelope的名词复数 ); 羚羊皮革
参考例句:
  • One jump, and you're out, and we'll run for it like antelopes.' 你只要一跳就出来了,我们可以像羚羊那样飞快地逃掉。”
  • Most antelopes can withhold their young for weeks, even months. 绝大部分羚羊能把分娩期推迟几个星期,甚至几个月。
3 hybrids a5030918be299fefcf603b9326766b39     
n.杂交生成的生物体( hybrid的名词复数 );杂交植物(或动物);杂种;(不同事物的)混合物
参考例句:
  • All these brightly coloured hybrids are so lovely in the garden. 花园里所有这些色彩鲜艳的杂交花真美丽。 来自辞典例句
  • The notion that interspecific hybrids are rare is ill-founded. 有一种看法认为种间杂种是罕见的,这种看法是无根据的。 来自辞典例句
4 mammoth u2wy8     
n.长毛象;adj.长毛象似的,巨大的
参考例句:
  • You can only undertake mammoth changes if the finances are there.资金到位的情况下方可进行重大变革。
  • Building the new railroad will be a mammoth job.修建那条新铁路将是一项巨大工程。
5 transformation SnFwO     
n.变化;改造;转变
参考例句:
  • Going to college brought about a dramatic transformation in her outlook.上大学使她的观念发生了巨大的变化。
  • He was struggling to make the transformation from single man to responsible husband.他正在努力使自己由单身汉变为可靠的丈夫。
6 mythologies 997d4e2f00506e6cc3bbf7017ae55f9a     
神话学( mythology的名词复数 ); 神话(总称); 虚构的事实; 错误的观点
参考例句:
  • a study of the religions and mythologies of ancient Rome 关于古罗马的宗教和神话的研究
  • This realization is enshrined in "Mythologies." 这一看法见诸于他的《神话集》一书。

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